Aside the average vignetting (stronger on film or FX, obviously) you may see at the long end at wide aperture this lens is a very capable performer.
It is sharp, it dosen’t flare so easily how his inheritor, the 70-200 VR, and is it shorter and somewhat smaller too.
The firs D version (without tripod collar) it has held as the sharper of the numerous versions of this zoom, but the differences are so small that you had better find a version with the tripod collar.
On the D300, at least in the worst conditions (mountain, shooting at black branches against a snow-covered slope), sometimes you will note a strong purple fringing, but with a little of post-processing you may easily remove it.
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